Awesome crime drama. Entertaining and surprising.

It is hard to say that To Live and Die in L.A. is a good movie, but damn it's enjoyable. Not sure if it's considered a cult movie, but it has many traits to be one. Just imagine Willem Dafoe as a vicious psycho painter turned counterfeiter with homoeroticism aura about him. That alone makes this film worth watching, and there are much more good stuff going on in it. Gos, I love 80's.

"Uncle Sam don't give a shit about your expenses. You want bread, fuck a baker." Do I really need to say anything else?

"I love the rain". "Yeah... It's groovy".

Right from the get go it's clear this is L.A. in the 80ies, but the film has a nasty, nihilistic undercurrent that feels more like the Italian exploitation films of the 70ies. A thrilling and morally bankrupt rollercoaster into the sewers of a city more myth than metropolis.

Just didnt do it for me, amigo

Delightfully trashy. Dafoe is great, Petersen plays the same guy he always does and Turturro was excellent in his limited time. The soundtrack is overbearing and terrible, definitely a product of its time. I also believe everyone involved in this movie was really into cocaine.

Begins like any number of other 80's action movies but somewhere along the way the film takes a crazy and nihilistic turn, leading up to a wild apocalyptic ending. A terrific car chase, almost as good as the one in the French Connection. Great cinematorgraphy, vivid settings. Tough, remorseless, unpredictable..

Didn't love it yet still an enjoyable experience. Dafoe is so damn awesome to watch at times.

A solid crime drama with only a few minor flaws. Very enjoyable and written with sheer power and acted with precision by Petersen and Dafoe. One of the 1980's best crime dramas in which Friedkin excels by breaking common crime conventions. Great stuff.

"Uncle Sam don't give a fuck about your expenses. If you want bread, fuck a baker."

Very dated, terrible soundtrack, lots of clichés ("I'm getting too old for this shit", says the cop who gets shots a few days from his retirement). On the plus side, Dafoe plays an interesting character, it looks good and has a fun chase scene.

One of the best cop thrillers ever with so much 80's style it practically hurts (And it will hurt if 80's style isn't your thing). Friedkin tops his French Connection car chase and has Wang Chung record the soundtrack. The ending is so great for what is essentially a Hollywood action movie.

Pretty awesome. Petersen and Dafoe are excellent.

Great 80's action flick with loads of style and great cinematography. Only the soundtrack and topless bar scenes haven't dated very well, the car chase is awesome.

Grim and grimy--gets under your skin. It seems to follow a generic buddy cop formula at first but it really rips it to bits. It's not a pleasant movie but I thought it was entertaining as heck. Some people knock the soundtrack but it's very cool and very fitting.

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Hell yeah! William Friedkin plus Willem Dafoe as an insane money launderer plus Wang Chung on the soundtrack equals a great film. But in all seriousness, a really damn good actioner with quite possibly the greatest highway chase ever committed to film--Friedkin tops his French Connection chase.

One of Friedkin's best films. The car chase scene is unparalleled and "inspired" several films since, like Ronin. Petersen does the adrenaline-junkie-sociopath thing thing so very well, and Pankow is the perfect wet blanket foil to that. Dafoe makes you believe in his extremely singular character. The Wang Chung might make you snicker, but this is seriously one of the most artistically cohesive genre films I've ever seen.

Was awesome for its day.

William Friedkin is widely regarded as a creep. This is exactly the sort of movie you'd expect from a very talented creep: a grim, violent, cold-blooded but well-made and exciting police thriller. It seems to delight in breaking this rule and that, much like its protagonist

HUGELY underrated... a must see

Great film.

Really enjoyable. It's pretty cheesy at times (the entire soundtrack is done by Wang Chung, the date/time/location subs randomly change fonts every scene, stuff like that), but the plot is very clever and neat, and it breaks past more than a few cliches of the genre. And I love films that feature experts in an interesting field - in this case, counterfeiting.